Tailored nanoplateau and nanochannel structures using solution-processed rutile TiO2 thin films for complementary and bipolar switching characteristics.

We synthesized two different nanostructures of rutile TiO2 (r-TiO2) thin films on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate at the lowest temperature reported until now and fabricated resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices with these r-TiO2 thin films having the stacking sequence of Ag/r-TiO2/FTO. Complementary resistive switching (CRS) and bipolar resistive switching (BRS) were observed in different thicknesses of r-TiO2 based devices. Benefiting from the in situ growth of the solution processed thin films and modulating the reaction growth rates, we successfully attained two different morphologies of r-TiO2 with a nanoplateau at a controlled deposition rate and pre-defined nanochannels at a higher deposition rate. The RRAM devices with nano-plateaus of r-TiO2 showed excellent CRS as well as unprecedented simultaneous observations of BRS. These CRS and BRS characteristics were reversible and reproducible. On the other hand, the tailored pre-defined nanochannels in r-TiO2 led to forming-free BRS with a pulse endurance higher than 107 without any degradation in the high and low resistance states. We propose a plausible switching mechanism of these unprecedented events using various physical and electrical characterization studies of low-temperature processed r-TiO2 RRAM devices. This work suggests the importance of solution-processed thin film engineering for RRAM switching with reliable and reproducible characteristics.

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